Financial Freedom and Investment

A Worry-Free Life Amid Crises

Investment & Financial Markets4.7(75)3h 51m22 lectures5 sections

What you'll learn

  • Understand financial freedom and its rules
  • Build a financial plan and set the goal
  • Define the starting point and the execution stage
  • Understand inflation, recession and depression
  • Get to know stagflation
  • Explore investing in gold and real estate
  • Understand the currency market and investment solutions in banks
  • Get to know cryptocurrencies

About this course

This course explains how to reach financial freedom and invest wisely despite economic crises. It starts with the introduction to the course and the concept of financial freedom and its rules, then moves to financial planning: setting the goal, the starting point, the execution stage, motivation and confirming goals. After that it explains the external challenges that threaten savings: inflation, recession, stagflation and depression. Then it presents the available investment alternatives, including investing in gold, real estate, the currency market, investment solutions in banks and cryptocurrencies, with a downloadable workbook. It suits anyone who wants to organize their money and understand how inflation and economic swings affect their life, whether you are an employee, a business owner or a beginner in investing. You need no previous experience. The course presents the material in a simple way that links each economic concept to everyday money decisions, so you understand what is happening around you and act with awareness. By the end, you will be able to build a financial plan with clear goals, understand economic risks, and compare investment alternatives before choosing what suits you.

Expected outcomes

  • Ability to create an effective financial plan to achieve your goals.
  • Handle external risks with awareness and professionalism.
  • Choose suitable investment alternatives based on your needs.
  • Achieve financial freedom through proven strategies.

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Course content

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Financial Freedom and Investment in Crises

3 lectures
  1. Course IntroductionIntroduces the course and the absence of financial education in schooling and its effect on income and inflation, then the course topics: financial management, investment alternatives such as gold, property and crypto, and building a balanced portfolio.8:45
  2. Concept of Financial FreedomDefines financial freedom as covering your costs without depending on a job, contrasts the rich and poor mindsets, and shows with examples how saving and investing turn into a source of income.11:22
  3. Laws of Financial FreedomPresents the five laws of financial freedom, including saving, changing the consumer mindset, not investing in a field you don't understand, and avoiding the illusion of quick riches, to break free from job dependence.8:59
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Financial Planning

6 lectures
  1. Introduction to Financial PlanningShows that financial planning starts with setting goals, why we plan to face change, and the five planning stages, including confirming goals by comparing real requirements with available resources.10:05
  2. Setting GoalsExplains setting financial goals with clear rules, splitting them into short, medium and long term while warning against short-term consumer goals, and then ranking them by priority.6:58
  3. Starting PointExplains the starting point in financial planning: understanding your current finances by tracking income and expenses, dividing income among needs, luxuries and savings, and warning against relying on borrowing and credit cards.17:33
  4. Execution PhaseExplains the implementation stage of financial planning: distributing savings across ranked goals by timeframe, inflation's effect on required amounts, and building an easily liquidated emergency fund covering nine months of expenses.7:09
  5. MotivationExplains the motivation stage of financial planning: keeping the goal clearly in view to resist consumer spending, and tying saving to a concrete picture such as rental income or funding children's education.1:58
  6. Confirming GoalsExplains the goal confirmation stage: reviewing whether the distributed goals are realistic, redistributing income when it changes, and how inflation destroys the purchasing power of savings, calling for protection from external risks.11:12
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External Risks

5 lectures
  1. Inflation (Part One)Explains inflation and its types, including hyperinflation, and its causes such as printing money and rising fuel and energy prices, and how raising interest rates can itself add to inflation.16:20
  2. Inflation (Part Two)Continues explaining inflation: the two-way link between interest rates and inflation and why it is hard to fix, its effect on the purchasing power of savings, and why certificates lose to gold during inflation.20:11
  3. RecessionExplains economic recession and its causes such as falling demand, labor problems and lower production, how the state treats it by encouraging investors, and how individuals should handle their assets during a recession.10:06
  4. Inflationary RecessionExplains stagflation, the combination of inflation and recession, why it is hard for governments to treat, why they prefer fighting inflation by raising interest rates, and how individuals protect themselves by cutting spending to the minimum.7:42
  5. DepressionDefines depression as a sharp fall in growth with consumers afraid to spend, its impact on companies, stocks and wages, and reviews the Great Depression in America and how the country recovered.10:47
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Investment Alternatives

7 lectures
  1. Introduction (Investment Alternatives)Reviews the financial planning stages and the external risks to savings, and introduces investment alternatives for protecting capital: gold, real estate, currencies, bank solutions and cryptocurrencies.5:00
  2. Investing in Gold (Part One)Explains investing in gold: its characteristics, that its price is set by general consumer sentiment, gold funds, when to buy, buying gradually rather than all at once, and buying bars from known companies.14:50
  3. Investing in Gold (Part Two)Continues with gold: its link to the dollar rather than the Egyptian pound, how to compute the gram price from the global ounce price, understanding making charges by bar size to avoid overpaying, and main companies and ways to buy.10:38
  4. Investing in Real EstateExplains real estate investing: its traits as a large, low-risk investment tool, how returns are calculated, the risks of commercial units in malls, and avoiding densely populated areas and summer units bought as investments.21:22
  5. Investing in Currency MarketsExplains investing in the currency market: its violent swings, how a falling currency erodes savings, choosing a currency by spending goal, avoiding herd behavior, and using the moving average.14:20
  6. Investment Solutions in BanksExplains bank investment solutions: the safety and liquidity of savings vehicles, the difference between certificates and deposits, computing the real interest rate by subtracting inflation, and avoiding deposits in volatile currencies.9:38
  7. Investing in CryptocurrenciesDiscusses investing in cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin's sharp volatility, whether it fits the investment rules, trading platforms, and the view that it is speculation rather than an investment alternative, as central banks move toward digital currencies.12:38
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The Add-ons

1 attachments
  1. Download the Work Book

Instructor

Dr. Mohamed Shaaban

Dr. Mohamed Shaaban

PhD researcher in strategic management with a professional master's in business administration and an academic master's in marketing. Consultant in B2B marketing.
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